Two medium-strength Al–Mg–Si alloys exhibited environmental embrittlement when deformed in laboratory air at low strain rates. Tensile specimens prepared from hot rolled plates of Al–0.75%Mg–0.75%Si and Al–0.75%Mg–0.75%Si–0.35%Cu alloys were solution treated for 1 h at 540°C, quenched in water and aged for 30 min at 175°C. They were deformed in tension at initial strain rates ranging from 1.7 × 10
−7 to 8.3 × 10
−4 s
−1 in a laboratory air with a relative humidity of 40–80%. Both alloys showed ductile transgranular fracture when tested at a strain rate of 8.3 × 10
−4 s
−1, however, they exhibited intergranular embrittlement with lower tensile elongation and reduction in area when tested at a strain rate of 1.7× 10
−7 s
−1. This tendency of intergranular embrittlement is prominent in the Al–0.75%Mg–0.75%Si–0.35%Cu alloy and the effect of hydrogen absorbed from the test environment on such embrittlement was studied using deuterium as a tracer of hydrogen.
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